Karl,
I think you should be able to handle this in the bounds variable. If you
write the first entry as "2000-12-1", "2010-03-01", doesn't that
describe things correctly?
Grace and peace,
Jim
On 2/10/16 6:37 PM, Karl Taylor wrote:
Dear CF community,
In representing the seasonal climatology based on data available for
the period January 1, 2000 through December 31 2010, what would be the
correct climatology_bounds?
climatology_bounds = "1999-12-1", "2011-3-1",
"2000-3-1", "2010-6-1",
"2000-6-1", "2010-9-1",
"2000-9-1", "2010-12-1" ????
I would note that this seems to capture the idea that we are reporting
seasonal means, but it also seems to indicate that this is based in
part on data from Dec. 1999 and Jan.-Feb. 2011, when it isn't. Is
this the best I can do? [Of course the convention can never tell us
if data are complete in forming a climatology. If 1 year were missing,
this would not affect the attributes.]
I suppose the in the cell_methods attribute ("time: mean over days
time: mean over years" I could add non-standardized information (as
permitted by CF), for example: "time: mean over days time: mean
over years (with data from the period 2000-1-1 to 2011-1-1)"
thanks for any suggestions,
Karl
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